Inspirational Quotes by William Penn
“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”
― William Penn ,
from Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
topics: aphorism
“396. Patience is a Virtue every where; but it shines with great Lustre in the Men of Government. 397. Some are so Proud or Testy, they won't hear what they should redress. 398. Others so weak, they sink or burst under the weight of their Office, though they can lightly run away with the Salary of it.”
topics: harvard-classics
“Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.”
“Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.”
“He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man’s use more than his own.”
“If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.”
topics: Government
“For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.”
“If we would amend the world we should mend ourselves; and teach our children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”
topics: Children
“Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.”
― William Penn ,
“If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.”
― William Penn ,
“Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.”
― William Penn ,
“They must first judge themselves, that presume to censure others: And such will not be apt to overshoot the Mark. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by Love and Information. And yet we could hurt no Man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men did once see we Love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the [Laurel]. If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever. [From Fruits of Solitude, 1693]”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
topics: Good and Evil
“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
topics: Friendship
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
topics: Fathers
“Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: "For without faith we cannot please God;" nor can we fear what we do not believe.”
topics: Faith
“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
“Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?”
topics: Death
“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
topics: Conversion
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William Penn was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his good relations and his treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, Philadelphia was planned and developed.
As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame(s) of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply, and included a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates," in his voluminous writings.